Editing Muses (section)

==Cult==

The Muses had several temples and shrines in ancient Greece, their two main cult centres being Mount Helikon in Boiotia, which holds the [[Valley of the Muses]], and [[Pieria (regional unit)|Pieria]] in Makedonia.
[[Strabo]] wrote: 
:"Helikon, not far distant from Parnassos, rivals it both in height and in circuit; for both are rocky and covered with snow, and their circuit comprises no large extent of territory. Here are the temple of the Mousai and Hippukrene and the cave of the Nymphai called the Leibethrides; and from this fact one might infer that those who consecrated Helikon to the Mousai were Thrakians, the same who dedicated Pieris and Leibethron and Pimpleia [in Pieria] to the same goddesses. The Thrakians used to be called Pieres, but, now that they have disappeared, the Makedonians hold these places."<ref>Strabo, Geography 9. 2. 25 (trans. Jones)</ref>
The cult of the Muses was also commonly connected to that of Apollo.